Accessibility Information

Accessibility Statement

Aurora is committed to ensuring that our website is accessible to everyone. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please use our contact form, as we are continually striving to improve the experience for all of our visitors.

Standards compliance

1. All pages on this site follow priorities 1 & 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
2. All pages on this site validate as HTML 4.01 Strict.
3. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+3. Opera users can skip sections by using “S” and “W” to cycle forwards and backwards respectively through headings.

Structural Markup

Web pages on www.auroragroup.com.au include 4 different areas:

1. A header bar that includes the main navigation
2. A main content area
3. A sidebar
4. A footer

When CSS (Cascading Styles Sheet) are not applied to a document (or when using a screen reader), the 4 areas are read in the above order.

Images

1. Unless they are purely decorative items, all images used on this web site have suitable alt attributes.
2. Content should be usable/accessible with images “off” (disabled).

Links

1. Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
2. Links are written to make sense out of context.
3. URLs are permanent whenever possible.

Scripts

1. We are using non obtrusive client-side scripts.
2. Content of this web site is usable without JavaScript support.

Visual design

1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
2. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified “text size” option in visual browsers.
3. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
4. Any information conveyed through the use of color is also available without color (i.e. text based).

Change text size

Most Web browsers include functionality to let you increase or decrease the text in a Web page. For example, to increase text size:

• Internet Explorer – View > Text Size > Largest
• Firefox/Mozilla – View > Text Size > Largest
• Opera – View > Zoom > %
• Safari – View > Make Text Bigger

Why doesn’t this work with some other Web sites?

The browser settings on this page should work when browsers and Web sites meet WAI guidelines and are designed for accessibility, flexibility, and user control. However, some browsers do not provide as much user control, and some Web sites are designed to defeat browser settings. Text resizing does not work well in browsers and Web sites that do not meet accessibility guidelines.

• In Internet Explorer Version 6 and earlier, the text may not resize because the Web site is designed with “hard-coded” or “absolute” text sizes. To override Web site setting:
  1. Menu items: Tools > Internet Options
  2. In Internet Options dialog box: Accessibility button (bottom right)
  3. In Accessibility dialog box:
     [/] Ignore colors specified on Web pages
     [/] Ignore font styles specified on Web pages
     [/] Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages
• In Firefox early versions, the text should resize even if the Web site text is not “coded” for flexibility. However the sections of the Web site may not resize, making it difficult to use the site with large text. This is because the Web site was designed with “hard-coded” or “absolute” sizes. Firefox does not resize images.
• Opera resizes all aspects of a Web site, including font, images, and sections. Resizing should work fairly well in Opera, even if the Web site is not “coded” for flexibility.

Accessibility software

1. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
2. Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
3. Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
4. Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
5. Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.

Related resources

• Vision Australia – Vision Australia is a partnership between people who are blind, sighted or have low vision.